Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women's accounts of 'early marriages'
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Callaghan, J. E., Gambo, Y. and Fellin, L. 2015. Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women's accounts of 'early marriages'. Feminism & Psychology. 25 (4), pp. 506-527.
Authors | Callaghan, J. E., Gambo, Y. and Fellin, L. |
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Abstract | ‘Early marriage’ is a relatively common but under-researched global phenomenon, associated with poor physical and mental health and educational and occupational outcomes, particularly for young girls. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with six Nigerian women from Sokoto state, who were married between the ages of 8 and 15. The interviews explored young women’s experiences of the transition to marriage, being married, pregnancy and their understanding of the marital and parental role. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, we explore women’s constrained articulations of their experiences of early marriage, as they are constituted within a social context where the identity of ‘woman’ is bound up in values and practices around marriage and motherhood. We explore the complexity of ‘hearing’ women’s experiences when their identities are bound up in culturally overdetermined ideas of femininity that function explicitly to silence and constrain the spaces in which women can speak. |
Journal | Feminism & Psychology |
Journal citation | 25 (4), pp. 506-527 |
ISSN | 1461-7161 |
0959-3535 | |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353515590691 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Jul 2015 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Jan 2016 |
Copyright information | Callaghan, J. E. and Gambo, Y. and Fellin, Lisa (2015) ‘Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women's accounts of 'early marriages'’, Feminism & Psychology, 25(4), pp. 506-527. © 2015 The authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
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